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the budget for four years in a row nationally and reform welfare, cut spending and cut taxes. and he is the leader that we need today. >> well, jackie, as always, a great place to talk to you and i'm sure we'll talk again very soon. >> thank you for having me on. >> has the race changed tonight or is this another swing of the pendulum? joining me now, ben smith. ben, welcome. from a media point of view, great stuff. it keeps the story going. it is exciting. the lead keeps changing. is it as good for the republican party? >> it much better for the media than the republican party. yes, the media has been cheering frantically all week for rick santorum to have a rise. i think the republican establishment would like this whole thing to go away. you've seen these candidates kind of get smaller and smaller and smaller as the primary proceeds. as obama gets larger. by comparison. >> that seems to be the big issue. until the republican party really finds their man, and they seem to be dithering and changing their mind almost state by state. until they make a decision and go with him e
the budget for four years in a row nationally and reform welfare, cut spending and cut taxes. and he is the leader that we need today. >> well, jackie, as always, a great place to talk to you and i'm sure we'll talk again very soon. >> thank you for having me on. >> has the race changed tonight or is this another swing of the pendulum? joining me now, ben smith. ben, welcome. from a media point of view, great stuff. it keeps the story going. it is exciting. the lead keeps...
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he has closed a gap with rick santorum by spending millions of dollars in negative advertisement. 80% of ads in restore our future, negative advertisement. the only time he's capturing voters is when he's negative against president obama and -- that's terrible. >> and the republican candidates. >> he's winning by being negative, let's be honest. >> nobody ever ran negative ads against them. >> people are starting to suffer political amnesia and forget what happened in 2008. in the middle of that election, that was quite divisive. hillary clinton attacked barack obama over ties to slumlord tony rezko and said he wasn't ready for a 3:00 phone call and said shame on you and said he was lying about her health care record. that race got tough. here's what democrats said about it. they will keep pounding there and pounding each other and bloodying each other and no one is winning. that's governor fill bled so of tennessee and dodd said back biting and sniping on an hourly basis is undermining our ability to win an election. >> you don't see this chipping away? >> i think you have to take a
he has closed a gap with rick santorum by spending millions of dollars in negative advertisement. 80% of ads in restore our future, negative advertisement. the only time he's capturing voters is when he's negative against president obama and -- that's terrible. >> and the republican candidates. >> he's winning by being negative, let's be honest. >> nobody ever ran negative ads against them. >> people are starting to suffer political amnesia and forget what happened in...
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we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive. according to other reports, since the general campaign began, as many as 3 in 4 of president obama's campaign ads have been negative. 3 in 4. to be sure, both campaigns are playing hard ball. during the two weeks ending july 9th, about 89% of obama's ads carried an anti-romney message. and 94% of romney's ads criticized president obama. that's, again, according to c-mag. those are the numbers. the obama campaign, however, is spinning a different narrative. ere the word "negative" doesn't really exist. an obama campaign spokesman said they wanted to have a, quote, high brow debate about whether americans really care about. keeping them honest, all weekend long, they instead focused on attacking romney's ties to bain and his personal finances. >> he's taken advantage of every single conceivable attack shelter and loophole. >>
we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive. according to other reports, since the general campaign began, as many as 3 in 4 of president obama's campaign ads have been negative. 3 in 4. to be sure, both campaigns are playing hard ball. during the two weeks ending july 9th, about 89% of obama's ads carried an...
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and he won't be able to out spend barack obama 21-1. >> is all of this -- santorum, gingrich, they all make this argument about the delegate count. it's inevitable mitt romney is going to be the nominee, isn't it? >> i think so. unless he unexpectedly collapses. >> one of the reasons he's down below 10% is the sense that his candidacy is fading. there's an up and down in these things. i have to tell you. there are a lot of people in illinois who are not totally comfortable. there are a lot of people in barack obama's camp who are not totally comfortable, either. i still think barack obama is favored. i think he's moved from underdog to favorite. and with a better economy. but it's still winnable for the republicans. >> but that point, the four out of ten being uncomfortable, speaks to the question of enthusiasm. and bar obama may do more to bring out republican voters than mitt romney does. it looks like turn out is actually low in illinois. and we've seen that time and time again. and the big question is whether that's going to mean much come the general election. but when you have re
and he won't be able to out spend barack obama 21-1. >> is all of this -- santorum, gingrich, they all make this argument about the delegate count. it's inevitable mitt romney is going to be the nominee, isn't it? >> i think so. unless he unexpectedly collapses. >> one of the reasons he's down below 10% is the sense that his candidacy is fading. there's an up and down in these things. i have to tell you. there are a lot of people in illinois who are not totally comfortable....
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he wants to spend not to crush rick santorum, but he wants to spend to push his own favorables up and drive his own unfavorables down. that's what he needs to do to defeat barack obama in a blue leaning, purple state like pennsylvania and wisconsin. >> do we have an idea where romney is going to be the next few weeks leading up to april 24th in pennsylvania. >> reporter: he's going to raise some money, but pennsylvania will be the first stop and many stops in between because, again, that's the big state here. one of the things i think they are counting on now is they really do believe they can rightfully claim the momentum. we saw through the whole first part of this primary season, if mitt romney wins new hampshire and immediately loses south carolina, newt gingrich wins south carolina and immediately loses florida. mitt romney wins florida and immediately loses in that sweep that rick santorum has. so what they believe now is this truly is momentum. in the old fashioned sense of that word, that meant that the states coming afterwards, those gaps began to close. you've already begun
he wants to spend not to crush rick santorum, but he wants to spend to push his own favorables up and drive his own unfavorables down. that's what he needs to do to defeat barack obama in a blue leaning, purple state like pennsylvania and wisconsin. >> do we have an idea where romney is going to be the next few weeks leading up to april 24th in pennsylvania. >> reporter: he's going to raise some money, but pennsylvania will be the first stop and many stops in between because, again,...
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the federal spending keeps skyrocketing and the economy under president obama is so weak. of course as a percentage it's come down. the economy is not doing well. government is going broke. the taxpayers are going broke. our children -- >> then stop giving money to rich people, ari. stop giving the money away then. >> there haven't been tax cuts passed. i don't know why hilary is saying give it away. president oba extended the tax rates for all americans not just one bracket. all americs. >> they haven't been passed -- >> we're all in deficits, we're all in debt. we're going broke. >> hilary, final note. >> ari is filibustering this. but mitt romney is going to increase the tax cuts to give more money away. if the republicans would worry about the federal budget they'd focus on pure spending cuts. they want to eliminate the federal programs for the needy while they give their friends a tax cuts. >> it's called trying to achieve growth which is something we haven't had for three years. >> i appreciate it. let us know what you think. we're on facebook, google plus. i'll be t
the federal spending keeps skyrocketing and the economy under president obama is so weak. of course as a percentage it's come down. the economy is not doing well. government is going broke. the taxpayers are going broke. our children -- >> then stop giving money to rich people, ari. stop giving the money away then. >> there haven't been tax cuts passed. i don't know why hilary is saying give it away. president oba extended the tax rates for all americans not just one bracket. all...
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election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama, who is take him on on every issue. [ applause ] if louisiana, missouri, illinois, and yes, puerto rico, which we are headed to tonight, i might add, and we're going to spend two days campaigning in puerto rico because we want to make sure that everybody knows we're campaigning everywhere there are delegates because we're going to win this nomination before that convention. those states do their part, starting right here in louisiana, if you folks do your part and you help us like the folks in alabama and hopefully the folks in mississippi did, we did? [ applause ] >> you do your job, you do your job next week, we will nominate a conservative, and if we nominate a conservative, we will defealt barack obama and set this country back on the right track. thank you, god bless. >> and rick santorum just making a statement. some have called the state of mississippi for rick santorum. we have not yet. 96% of the vote in. santorum well in the lead. 3500 votes ahead with 33% of the votes. 31%
election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama, who is take him on on every issue. [ applause ] if louisiana, missouri, illinois, and yes, puerto rico, which we are headed to tonight, i might add, and we're going to spend two days campaigning in puerto rico because we want to make sure that everybody knows we're campaigning everywhere there are delegates because we're going to win this nomination before that convention. those states...
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that's what he needs to do to beat barack obama in a purple state like wisconsin or pennsylvania. >> candy, do we have a good sense of romney's whereabouts, his strategy over the next few days and weeks leading up to april 24 in pennsylvania? >> he's going to raise some money, but pennsylvania will be first stop and many stops in between because again that's the big state here. listen, one of the things that i think they're counting on now, they really do believe they can rightfully claim the momentum. we saw through the whole first part of this primary season, mitt romney wins new hampshire and immediately loses south carolina. newt gingrich wins south carolina and immediately loses florida. mitt romney wins florida, immediately loses in that sweep that rick santorum has. so what they believe now is this truly is momentum and in the old fashioned sense of that word, that meant that the states coming afterwards those gaps began to close. you already begun to see that in the polls and they believe that will happen in pennsylvania as well. i think the big question for rick santorum, if
that's what he needs to do to beat barack obama in a purple state like wisconsin or pennsylvania. >> candy, do we have a good sense of romney's whereabouts, his strategy over the next few days and weeks leading up to april 24 in pennsylvania? >> he's going to raise some money, but pennsylvania will be first stop and many stops in between because again that's the big state here. listen, one of the things that i think they're counting on now, they really do believe they can rightfully...
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he didn't spend very much money and mitt spends all this money. i think he will have to push pretty hard against that. >> romney will continue to run a general election campaign. focusing on president obama, attacking president obama and try to ignore his republican colleagues until maybe another one of them drop out of race. >> outlast them. >> there's a debate saturday night, which will be almost as interesting tonight. but he has it stay the course. he can't dot super pac. but this is something we haven't seen santorum up against, which is it the meat grinder, which starts at o-dark-hundred tomorrow. and rick will have to double down and stay on obama. >> and it is not just money at this point. it is also, who have you got in the state that's working out ahead of you? and there's no real sign that there's a lot of that for santorum right new. and that puts him in a huge hole. >> well you know, earlier tonight wib noticed that he was tweeting and sending e-mails to his followers. he is trying to raise money. he is trying to put together an organ
he didn't spend very much money and mitt spends all this money. i think he will have to push pretty hard against that. >> romney will continue to run a general election campaign. focusing on president obama, attacking president obama and try to ignore his republican colleagues until maybe another one of them drop out of race. >> outlast them. >> there's a debate saturday night, which will be almost as interesting tonight. but he has it stay the course. he can't dot super pac....
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he'll spend election day tomorrow in chicago, playing basketball of other things as we just learned. it is the third state they visited today. we're waiting for president obama to take the stage any moment. we'll bring that to you live. as well as governor romney when he takes the stage at his rally tonight. >>> a million people in the region hit by sandy are still waiting for power. thousands have been displaced from their homes. the loss and damage sandy left in its wake is immense. tomorrow, secretary of homeland security janet in a poli napoli going to travel to nassau, suffolk county long island. they feel like they have not gotten the attention they need. in further, people will be allowed to vote by e-mail or fax. despite the scramble to make it easier to vote, an obvious question that remains, in areas hardest hit, can voters focus on the election. the first election lawsuits have already been filed in ohio over how provisional ballots will be counted and in florida over the deadline for early voting. we all remember what happened in florida in 2000, the lawyers are certainly
he'll spend election day tomorrow in chicago, playing basketball of other things as we just learned. it is the third state they visited today. we're waiting for president obama to take the stage any moment. we'll bring that to you live. as well as governor romney when he takes the stage at his rally tonight. >>> a million people in the region hit by sandy are still waiting for power. thousands have been displaced from their homes. the loss and damage sandy left in its wake is immense....
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all i have to say is that if these reckless deficits he's running up, if the uncontrolled spending, if 25 million unemployed or underemployed americans is part of obama's master plan, then maybe rush limbaugh is right. maybe he is trying to destroy america. this is all that's happening under obama. >> no. >> i like to believe he's completely clueless and he doesn't know what to do, and that's what's happened here. >> the vast majority of the unemployment, which is long-term, stem from that recession, which began in 2007 and was intensified the in 2008. i don't see anything that obama has done that has made that worse. if you look, once we got out of that hole, at the end of the bush administration, if you go into 2010, this is after the first year, you'll see there's been growth in jobs. and so the policies can be defended and should be defended. what i can't understand is why obama doesn't defend them in this way? it seems so straightforward. >> ezra klein saying you've actually defended the obama administration better than the administration has defended. >> well, that's very kind of
all i have to say is that if these reckless deficits he's running up, if the uncontrolled spending, if 25 million unemployed or underemployed americans is part of obama's master plan, then maybe rush limbaugh is right. maybe he is trying to destroy america. this is all that's happening under obama. >> no. >> i like to believe he's completely clueless and he doesn't know what to do, and that's what's happened here. >> the vast majority of the unemployment, which is long-term,...
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we passed a spending bill for this year that spends more than last year. >> then senator barack obama also voted against increasing the debt ceiling. then when he became the president, he realized something, which was true, which is that when you don't do that, you default on the debt. most people who own u.s. treasuries are americans. most people who have promises made by the u.s. government in the past are those who get social security. and wouldn't get paid. he's got a fair point. >> not if you cut spending. you don't have to default on the debt, but we're increasing our spending every year, and we have through bush and obama. we can't keep spending more than we're bringing in. we have to borrow over $120 billion every month to keep the lights on. >> are you inherently against -- talking about the economic cycle right now. when things are good, say you didn't spend all your money, then when things are bad, you have a little left over. but also when things are bad, by definition, a government according to many economists, should borrow money. then when things get better, you pay it
we passed a spending bill for this year that spends more than last year. >> then senator barack obama also voted against increasing the debt ceiling. then when he became the president, he realized something, which was true, which is that when you don't do that, you default on the debt. most people who own u.s. treasuries are americans. most people who have promises made by the u.s. government in the past are those who get social security. and wouldn't get paid. he's got a fair point....
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i can't spend my life worrying about it. i accepted what he wanted to do. >> i want to play for our viewers what president obama said about your son when he returned home. >> sean smith it seems lived to serve. first in the air force and then with you in the state department. there in benghazi he surely thought of heather and samantha and nathan and he laid down his life in service to us all. today, sean is home. >> he's mentioning his wife and children. when you heard the president say that, what did you think? >> this is the first time i heard the president say that. >> it is really? >> yes, he never told me that, he knew he was in a bunch of scary places. i didn't expect him to get blown up and to die. >> do you feel that you know what happened or are you still searching for answers. have you been in contact with the state department? you have they given you details of what happened? >> that is a funny subject. i begged them to tell me what happened. i said i want to know all the details all of the details no matter what
i can't spend my life worrying about it. i accepted what he wanted to do. >> i want to play for our viewers what president obama said about your son when he returned home. >> sean smith it seems lived to serve. first in the air force and then with you in the state department. there in benghazi he surely thought of heather and samantha and nathan and he laid down his life in service to us all. today, sean is home. >> he's mentioning his wife and children. when you heard the...
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they're involve primarily because of spending, deficits, government overreach, and obama care. but they are social conservatives. and among self-identified evangelic evangelical, about half identify themes as members or activists. there's a huge amount of overlap. >> and do they tend to be -- with the overlap, do they tend to be moved by the social issues more or the economic issues that romney has been stressing? is that message getting through to the tea party? sound like that's what you were concluding. >> i think for all voters this cycle, including primary voters and evangelicals. if you disaggregate the data, they're voting on obama care and spending just like everybody else. if for example -- i haven't looked at tonight. but if you looked at ohio and michigan, when you ask how many voters were voting on social issues like abortion and how many were voting on the economy, it was about 55% america aecono% abortion. that isn't to indicate these issues aren't important to people. they're very important to people and they've been a booster rocket for santorum. this guy was an
they're involve primarily because of spending, deficits, government overreach, and obama care. but they are social conservatives. and among self-identified evangelic evangelical, about half identify themes as members or activists. there's a huge amount of overlap. >> and do they tend to be -- with the overlap, do they tend to be moved by the social issues more or the economic issues that romney has been stressing? is that message getting through to the tea party? sound like that's what...
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, he's attacking from the left in the same playbook as barack obama and the liberals. we're very comfortable in defending free enterprise and romney's record and creating jobs. >> and you're sure it's going to end with a creating? >> if you take a look at the companies governor romney's been involved in, there's clearly more jobs have been created. >> so, let's talk about tomorrow. looking back in 2008, 32%. 32.2 or something that he got. a big part of the narrative has been he's got to do better. he's got this threshold nationally. >> i think if 32% is going to win, we're fine with that. if we get 35%, we win, that's great. 29% and win. i think what we'd like our bar, we won by eight votes last tuesday. we'd like to win by more this time. >> that's a low bar. >> we'll start there and work our way up. >> let me ask you a question about the campaign. i was at your headquarters today. people of all ages there. a lot of young people. it looked like you guys have little kind of laptop computers that were issued from the campaign. is that true? and can you tell me what it i
, he's attacking from the left in the same playbook as barack obama and the liberals. we're very comfortable in defending free enterprise and romney's record and creating jobs. >> and you're sure it's going to end with a creating? >> if you take a look at the companies governor romney's been involved in, there's clearly more jobs have been created. >> so, let's talk about tomorrow. looking back in 2008, 32%. 32.2 or something that he got. a big part of the narrative has been...
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president obama had a different view. he made getting bin laden a top priority and he made a call that bob gates who served president bush and president obama called the gutsiest call he could make. now romney saying anybody would have done it is not by the stated positions of governor romney and the lack of actions by president bush. >> ari? >> it's amazing paul still can't be gracious about it. the fact of the matter is if president obama had not flip-flopped on the very thing he criticized president bush for, enhanced techniques and detention. those were the techniques the cia used under president bush that led years later to the ability to track. i praised the president for that. but this is where people -- both parties especially the cia deserves the credit and especially the navy s.e.a.l.s. but attacking mitt romney over it when it's not what mitt romney said. it was so unnecessary, anderson. my point is it's revealing about president obama's character. when he ran in 2008 as the post-partisan as someone who would b
president obama had a different view. he made getting bin laden a top priority and he made a call that bob gates who served president bush and president obama called the gutsiest call he could make. now romney saying anybody would have done it is not by the stated positions of governor romney and the lack of actions by president bush. >> ari? >> it's amazing paul still can't be gracious about it. the fact of the matter is if president obama had not flip-flopped on the very thing he...
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so i think obama needs to own tackling the debt. i think he needs to say we're going to have to make a call by the end of the year because we have the bush tax cuts sun setting. i will compromise. will they? >> why do you think he did not pursue simpson/bowles? obviously paul ryan voted, did not want -- >> the whole point of bowles/simpson is you would have to get unanimity to get it into the congress. paul ryan stopped that. the reason he stopped that is because he opposed any tax revenue -- >> paul ryan will come back and say, look, i opposed it but then i came up with my own plan. president obama did not. >> he did come up with a plan. you look at his budget. it's all there. he does have a long-term plan. part of is the cost control curve, bend the cost curve in medicare, which is all in obama care which they're going to get rid of. they're going to get rid of -- romney and ryan -- the actual cost control mechanisms in the aca. and that's going to make cost controls go up. i don't -- i see all of this. i see cutting taxes, increa
so i think obama needs to own tackling the debt. i think he needs to say we're going to have to make a call by the end of the year because we have the bush tax cuts sun setting. i will compromise. will they? >> why do you think he did not pursue simpson/bowles? obviously paul ryan voted, did not want -- >> the whole point of bowles/simpson is you would have to get unanimity to get it into the congress. paul ryan stopped that. the reason he stopped that is because he opposed any tax...
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that's how much time they have been spending together. the other thing mitt romney has been doing, they have been preparing for a more aggressive president obama. you heard rob portman on one of the sunday talk shows saying they expect the president to come out swinging. the obama campaign earlier this afternoon came out with a new web video that essentially accuses mitt romney of being his own october surprise, saying that he's been changing his position on a whole host of issues to appear more moderate. so i think the romney campaign is taking all of that into consideration. and then there's also this issue, and i think candy can talk to this, about whether or not there will be follow-up questions to the questions that are posed by audience members at the town hall debate tomorrow night. i talked to a senior romney advisor about this, and they said that while this has come up as an issue, they say they are ready for whatever comes, no matter who asks the question, anderson. >> candy, what about that? in terms of what you're expecting, o
that's how much time they have been spending together. the other thing mitt romney has been doing, they have been preparing for a more aggressive president obama. you heard rob portman on one of the sunday talk shows saying they expect the president to come out swinging. the obama campaign earlier this afternoon came out with a new web video that essentially accuses mitt romney of being his own october surprise, saying that he's been changing his position on a whole host of issues to appear...
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then talked about president obama apolicy spends his time on a talking about the economy. when they asked what he was actually saying. the campaign manager certainly repeated the talking point. he said the subject has been the economy, is the economy and will be the economy. mitt romney doesn't want to change the subject. he wants to change the economy and that's what he's going to do as president. to be fair, fair enough. that's the message that they want us to get. but that's not all coming from the candidate on the campaign trail. here's governor romney today in ohio. >> when and if i become president of the united states. >> i will not take god out of my heart. i will not take god out of the public square and not out of the platform out of platform. /*. >> his campaign took the scener right through the pentagon and bible belt and nascar country. after mitt romney made a pit stop at the international raceway. signing autographs. he also kicked often the weekend in iowa. endorsing steve king, outspoken and controversial conservative. you can agree or not with congressman
then talked about president obama apolicy spends his time on a talking about the economy. when they asked what he was actually saying. the campaign manager certainly repeated the talking point. he said the subject has been the economy, is the economy and will be the economy. mitt romney doesn't want to change the subject. he wants to change the economy and that's what he's going to do as president. to be fair, fair enough. that's the message that they want us to get. but that's not all coming...
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>> well, the budget plan that mitt romney is supporting gets us down to 20% of gdp government spending by 2016. that means get the size of government back to where it historically has been. what president obama has done is he's brought the size of government to as high as it hasn't been since world war ii. we want to reduce the size of government so we can have more economic freedom. >> what about balance? >> i don't know exactly when it balances. >> there are no specifics on the romney website as mr. gal espy suggested or in the romney budget plan about when that budget will be balanced. back in june mr. romney said he would try to balance the budget within eight to ten years. back in march he admitted that the budget lacked enough specifics to say for sure just when or if it would be balanced. listen. >> i haven't laid out all of the details of how we'll deal with each one of the deductions and exemptions. i think it's interesting for the groups to try to score it because frankly it can't be scored because those kind of details are going to have to be worked out with congress. >> jus
>> well, the budget plan that mitt romney is supporting gets us down to 20% of gdp government spending by 2016. that means get the size of government back to where it historically has been. what president obama has done is he's brought the size of government to as high as it hasn't been since world war ii. we want to reduce the size of government so we can have more economic freedom. >> what about balance? >> i don't know exactly when it balances. >> there are no...